The Amedeo Lia Museum, La Spezia

The Amedeo Lia Museum

The Amedeo Lia Museum was founded in 1995 thanks to a financial donation made by Amedeo Lia, a local naval businessman who works for the Spezian council. It is housed in the 17th century Frati Minimi conventual�s church of San Francesco di Paola.
Its corpulent collection consists of over 1000 works of art, spread out over three floors and 13 rooms. On the ground floor, rooms 1 (which used to be the chapel of the old church) and 2 house artefacts such as a polychrome wooden statue of the Madonna with child dating back to the 13th century, and a small collection of valuable miniatures. Rooms 3 to 10 are located on the first floor and house marble and bronze articles, as well as various paintings. Room 4 houses various 13th and 14th century Florentine paintings, by artists such as Maestro della Maddalena, Giotto, Bernardo Daddi, Duccio, Pietro Lorenzetti, Simone Martini and Lippo Memmi. Room 5 hosts a collection of Renaissance paintings, including works by Sassetta, Sano di Pietro, Bembo, and Bergognone. Rooms 6, 7 and 8 host a series of 16th century canvases by artists such as Giampietrino, Tinotetto, il Romanino, Giovanni and Gentile Bellini, Paolo Veronese, Tiziano and Pontormo. Rooms 9 and 10 house works dating back to the 17th and 18th centuries, by artists such as Longhi, Marieschi, Canaletto, Guardi and Bellotto.
The last three rooms are located on the second floor and host 11th and 12th century marbles, sculptures, bronzes terracotta and glazed pottery, as well as various 13th and 17th century Flemish and Italian still-life paintings.

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